A method evaluates power engineering data using a data request that is transmitted to a coupling device by a first communication link. The coupling device is used to convert the data request from a coupling data format into a further data request that is specific to an energy engineering device in a device-specific data format. The further data request is transmitted to the power engineering device by a second communication link. The power engineering device transmits its power engineering data, requested by the further data request, to the coupling device by the second communication link. The power engineering data are in a data format that is specific to the power engineering device, and the coupling device converts all the power engineering data requested by further data requests into a data response in the coupling data format and uses the first communication link to transmit them to the evaluation device.
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1. A method for evaluating power engineering data, which comprises the steps of: providing a cloud-based data processing configuration for producing a data request having a coupling data format, producing the data request having the coupling data format by means of evaluation devices that can be added, removed or altered in a course of operation of the cloud-based data processing configuration; transmitting the data request to a coupling device via a first communication link; converting, via the coupling device, the data request in the coupling data format into at least one further data request in a device-specific data format that is specific to an energy engineering device, the energy engineering device being selected from the group consisting field devices, station controllers, grid controllers, electricity meter data management controllers, electricity meters, and energy management controllers; transmitting the at least one further data request to the energy engineering device via a second communication link; transmitting, via the energy engineering device, power engineering data of the energy engineering device, requested by the further data request, to the coupling device via the second communication link, wherein the energy engineering data are in a data format that is specific to the energy engineering device; and converting, via the coupling device, all the power engineering data requested by means of further data requests into a data response having the coupling data format and transmitting the data response to the cloud-based data processing configuration via the first communication link.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the evaluation devices provided include an evaluation device for a load forecast and an evaluation device for a grid stability computation.
3. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises using the evaluation devices to evaluate the data response and present the data response in a display device.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first communication link is encrypted.
5. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises storing the data response only in the coupling device.
6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the data request has details pertaining to at least one energy-engineering-device-specific update cycle time, as a result of which the coupling device is used to update the data response in accordance with the energy-engineering-device-specific update cycle time by repeatedly transmitting the further data requests and to transmit the data response to the cloud-based data processing configuration.
7. The method according to claim 6 , which further comprises constantly updating the data response in accordance with the energy-engineering-device-specific update cycle time for as long as a user uses the cloud-based data processing configuration, the update being interrupted when the user terminates use.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the cloud-based data processing configuration is used to produce at least one of a maintenance recommendation or a replacement recommendation for an energy engineering device when the data response reveals an error in the energy engineering device.
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein: the cloud-based data processing configuration is used to evaluate the power engineering data for a plurality of different customers, each having customer-specific coupling devices and energy engineering devices, in each case on a customer-specific basis, such that all the customer-specific data requests and the data responses are each processed separately from one another in order to ensure data protection.
10. A system for evaluating power engineering data, comprising: a cloud-based data processing configuration for producing a data request in a coupling data format, said cloud-based data processing configuration having at least one evaluation device used in said cloud-based data processing configuration to produce the data request in the coupling data format, said at least one evaluation device can be added, removed or altered in a course of operation of said cloud-based data processing configuration; a first communication link for transmitting the data request and a data response; at least one energy engineering device, the energy engineering device being selected from the group consisting field devices, station controllers, grid controllers, electricity meter data management controllers, electricity meters, and energy management controllers; a coupling device suited to converting the data request from the coupling data format into at least one further data request that is specific to said energy engineering device in a device-specific data format, and is further suited for converting all the power engineering data requested by means of further data requests into the data response having the coupling data format; at least one second communication link for transmitting the further data request for requesting the power engineering data; and said at least one energy engineering device suited for transmitting the power engineering data requested by the further data request to said coupling device by means of said second communication link, wherein the power engineering data are in a data format that is specific to said energy engineering device; and said coupling device suited for converting the power engineering data requested by the data response to the cloud-based data processing configuration via the first communication link.
11. The system according to claim 10 , wherein said coupling device is exclusively suited to storing the data response by means of a data memory.
12. The system according to claim 10 , wherein: said cloud-based data processing configuration is suited to providing the data request with details pertaining to at least one energy-engineering-device-specific update cycle time; and said coupling device is suited to updating the data response in accordance with the energy-engineering-device-specific update cycle time that the data request contains by repeatedly transmitting the further data requests to said at least one energy engineering device and to transmitting an updated data response to said cloud-based data processing configuration.
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program when executed by a processor performs a method for evaluating power engineering data, which comprises the steps of: providing, via a cloud-based data processing configuration, a data request having a coupling data format, the data request having the coupling data format being produced by means of evaluation devices that can be added, removed or altered in a course of operation of the cloud-based data processing configuration; transmitting the data request to a coupling device via a first communication link; converting, via the coupling device, the data request from the coupling data format into at least one further data request in a device-specific data format that is specific to an energy engineering device, the energy engineering device being selected from the group consisting field devices, station controllers, grid controllers, electricity meter data management controllers, electricity meters, and energy management controllers; transmitting the at least one further data request to the energy engineering device via a second communication link; transmitting, via the energy engineering device, power engineering data of the energy engineering device, requested by the further data request, to the coupling device via the second communication link, wherein the power engineering data are in a data format that is specific to the energy engineering device; and converting, via the coupling device, all the power engineering data requested by means of further data requests into a data response having the coupling data format and transmitting the data response to the cloud-based data processing configuration via the first communication link.
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